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Iran signed a multibillion dollar deal on Monday with French oil giant Total and Chinese state oil company CNPC to further develop the country’s giant South Pars Gas Field in cooperation with Iran’s Petropars. The first major Western energy investment since sanctions against Tehran were lifted will cost up to $5 billion, with production expected…

The contract to buy 60 Boeing 737 Max planes within two 30-jet batches was finalized between Boeing and Iran Aseman Airlines on Saturday in Tehran. At the presence of Iranian Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei, the contract was inked between Iran’s third largest airline, Aseman Airlines and the American plane maker…

Iran’s Aseman Airlines on Tuesday signed a deal to purchase dozens of passenger planes from US aviation giant Boeing. Under the agreement, the airlines will buy 30 Boeing 737 MAX airplanes worth $3 billion. The deal also gives Aseman the right to purchase another 30 of the Boeing’s twinjet narrow-body passenger planes. IRNA said that…

Hundreds of Iranian wrestling enthusiasts and correspondents have extended their friendly welcome to American wrestlers, who arrived in the country to take part in the 2017 Freestyle World Cup in Kermanshah. The US freestyle wrestling team landed at Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Airport in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah, located 525 kilometers west of the…

France‘s foreign minister travels to Iran on Monday, seeking to reaffirm Europe’s commitment to the nuclear deal that US President Donald Trump has threatened to annul. The deal struck in 2015 with three European countries, Russia, China and the United States gave Iran relief from a range of sanctions, allowing it to strike major business…

An Iranian oil tanker has called at a European port for the first time since the lifting of sanctions last January, said managing director of the National Iranian Tankers Company (NITC) said. Sirous Kianersi added the first NITC tanker leased to a major Spanish oil company docked at the Port of Algeciras just recently, reported…

An NIOC official announced that new shale gas reserves have been discovered in west Iran exploration blocks. Over the past four years, the market for shale oil and shale gas has taken off across the globe to the extent that the US has begun shale production which is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale…

Head of the Iranian National Carpet Center has announced the resumption of Iran’s hand-woven carpet export to the US during post-sanctions era. Hamid Karegar, speaking in a meeting with Qazvin Governor General Fereidoun Hemmati on Sunday, said that Iran resumed carpet exports to the US in the wake of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action…

Alphaliner has listed the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line (IRISL) as the 20th operator among the top 100 container lines, with a total capacity of 99,867 TEUs over 47 ships. Information from the corporate website indicates tonnage ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 TEUs, but it appears that most of its current fleet is under…

Deputy road minister said eight new Airbus and ATR passenger planes will be delivered to Iran Air within three months. Deputy Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Road and Urban Development Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan made the announcement elaborating that “Iran‘s national carrier, Iran Air (Homa) will receive one A330 and two A320 long-range…